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November 7,
2005, Chandigarh, India
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Dayal to hold probe into Volcker charge
New Delhi, November 6
After several days of hectic consultations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today named former UN bureaucrat Virendra Dayal, as his special envoy to go into the Volcker Committee report which has named External Affairs Minister K.Natwar Singh and the Congress as non-contractual beneficiaries in Iraqi oil
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Hamdan
Exports Director questioned
New Delhi, November 6
In a major blow to External Affairs
Minister K. Natwar Singh’s entreaties of being clean in the UN’s-Oil-for-Food
programme in Iraq, the probe into the Volcker Committee report got
underway here today with the Enforcement Directorate questioning
Hamdan Exports Director Andleep Sehgal, believed to have played a key
role in the deal.
Manekshaw serious, being flown to Delhi
New Delhi, November 6
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who has been suffering from acute pneumonia, is being shifted to the Army Hospital here from Wellington in Tamil Nadu.
The 91-year-old Manekshaw who had been undergoing treatment at the Military Hospital in Wellington is being brought to the Army Research and Referral Hospital here.
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Six die in stampede at TN relief camp
Chennai, November 6
While Tamil Nadu was lashed with heavy rains this morning six women were killed and more than 10 injured in a stampede at a relief camp here this morning.
The tragedy struck when a large crowd gathered at a relief distribution centre here to collect the state government’s dole of Rs 2,000, rice and clothes.
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A Kashmiri woman with her kid picking flowers from a saffron field at Konibal Pampore, 16 km from Srinagar, on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway,
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Sant Daljit Singh may adopt quake-hit village
Chandigarh, November 6
The Chicago-based International Human Welfare Organisation may adopt one of the quake-hit villages in Baramulla or Kupwara districts of Jammu and Kashmir, says Sant Daljit Singh.
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PoK victims not to cross LoC for getting relief
Jammu, November 6
The victims of the killer earthquake in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir will not be allowed to cross the Line of Control tomorrow to reach the relief camp established by the Indian Army at Chakan-da-Bagh in Poonch.
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Pakistani earthquake survivors line-up to receive relief goods in Balakot, about 270 km northwest of Islamabad. Pakistan said on Sunday preparations were complete for opening border crossing points with India, but New Delhi said it was ready to open only one of five points to help survivors of last month’s quake.
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RJD minister quits, Shahabuddin held
November 6, 2005
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Volcker: Natwar was notified
November 5, 2005
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Govt
determined to get to the truth
November 4, 2005
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10 killed in Srinagar blast
November 3, 2005
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1 to die, 2 get life term in Red Fort attack case
November 1, 2005
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Terror-hit
Delhi rebounds
October 31, 2005
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BLASTS
ROCK DELHI,
60 DEAD
October 30, 2005
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Navy
sacks 3 officers
October 29, 2005
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Rain
cripples Chennai
October 28, 2005
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Kalam
for policy on death penalty, pardon
October 27, 2005
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